Keeping in Touch

There are numerous invaluable lessons that I will take away from this course. However, it seems that the best way to do our time (and our Professor's time) justice would be to understand how to use the sum of the parts. A topic as big as health care reform will not just take one type of expert - it will be a combination of science and economics, public health and politics, compassion and being able to face the cold hard facts. Fortunately, we have gone through that journey over the last few months. We have engaged in that journey together: understanding different view points and being conscious of health policy as well as implementation of those policies. Reform will not come easy or quickly, but will endure with will. As students, and future professionals of public health, we take on an awesome responsibility. Gathering what we've learned and incorporating lessons from this and other courses will be vital moving forward. While it may not be one SAS class, or one Epi or Biostat class, or one policy class that answers the challenges we face in our professional lives, the combination of all these experiences will aid us all in being a proud public health advocate.